LastM

2017

First, some backstory:
I started this personal challenge because I couldn’t help, but feel guilty about my own backlog last year: 500+ unplayed games and a collection of SGwins that was growing fast. I had to do something. First, I stopped buying games for myself and deleted a bunch of bad games, but I kept winning on SG. I realized that I had about that too, so I started playing my wins and stopped entering GAs for every single game with trading cards. With that in mind, my new year’s gaming resolution last year was to play at least half my backlog.

One year later, I think it’s time to share my progress. I’m very proud to say that I’ve surpassed every single one of my expectations.

January
january

May:
may

December:

7% won't play
14% never played
65% beaten
14% completed

You can click here to see all the games I’ve played this year It’s a mess.
I couldn’t have done this without all the monthly themes, the ABC Challenge, POP and of course, Challenge me! Both of them helped me a lot!

Btw, it was only this month that I realized that I’ve played more games this year than all my other years on steam combined:

It wasn’t easy nor perfect. There were lots of games that I played way less than I’d like to, while others that I played way more than I ever wanted to. I had to abandon a lot of games, both because I lacked skills to play it or simply because of how bad they were. Either way, I deeply regret entering those GAs.

Anyway, I definitely wouldn’t have achieved my goal if it weren’t for a bunch of people here. I can’t list every single person because that post would be gigantic, but thanks to all my challengers on both “Challenge me!” and “Play or Pay”; everyone who played multiplayer games with me, so I could unlock a few achievements; all the Monthly theme hosts, and above all, everyone who read/replied to my posts. I really needed that motivation to keep playing some shitty games xD

Merry Christmas, folks, and since I’m not creating another post this month…

tsupertsundere

Have the happiest of new years, M! You’re someone I’ve looked up to in the steamgifts community/in backlog assassins - everything you do has a really cool aura. A ‘that guy knows what he’s talking about’ cool aura. Your actions line up with your reputation, and you bring nothing but positives that I’ve seen.

I am fuckin thrilled that you managed to set a goal and then surpass it - that’s a wonderful feeling! Take what you’ve learned and done this year and continue it on - we’re all here behind you.

See you in 2018, my friend!

LastM

You made me sound way more cool than I actually am! Thanks a lot for the kind words. :P
I’ll probably slow down this year, I gotta a big exam in a few months and I need to focus on that. As soon as it’s done, I hope to go back and finish my backlog for once and for all. xD
Happy new year! I’m sure you’re gonna achieve in everything you want this year!

ninglor03

Man, that is impressive! And here I thought I had a great gaming year, but you did amazing! <3
Keep on rocking!
Or: Keep calm and game on? Yeah, that!

Arrive safely in 2018!
Happy killing 2018! ;)

LastM

You had a great gaming year! I think that the fact that you completed 100+ is really, really impressive.
Thanks! Happy new year!

Blue Ϟ Lightning

all I can say is…wew…
this is hella impressive,

LastM

Thanks!
It’s just a matter of focus. xD

IcyGlare

At the rate you’re going, your backlog will be dead by next year. :O
Good job! :D

LastM

I hope so. I wanna start buying games for myself again. xD
Although, I’ll probably take it slow this slow. I have some other plans :P

Lucky Thirteen

You’ve made a great progress, congrats! May the year 2018 be at least as good as this year, if not even better :)

Happy New Year, LastM!

LastM

Thanks and happy new year!

Belmas

Those are really impressive numbers! Congratulations LastM!!!

I’m quite happy with my almost 100 games beaten but 400+ totally wows me.

Here’s to another great year for gaming… Happy 2018!

LastM

Thanks!
~100 games is amazing. Don’t think otherwise! :)
Happy 2018!

Quisty

Congratulations! This is a big accomplishment.
Meanwhile, me staring at your finished games list…

LastM

Careful! Don’t look directly at it or you might end like me: always wearing sunglasses. :P
But seriously, thanks! :)

Kap

;)

LastM

LOL
gonna save this gif for later xD

JaffaCaffa

That’s really impressive, nice job! Hope you enjoyed the majority of them still. :) Here’s to a great 2018~

LastM

Thanks and happy new year!

Kaleith

You know what would make that animated image better? Replacing “happy new year” with “cats”

I wish I kept some data about my start of the year, I want graphs too q_q

LastM

I highly doubt that :X
I’ve been creating a monthly list since the beginning of the year. It helps a lot. If you don’t wanna end up with a lot of lists, just dump them into one big yearly list after the end of each month.

cbones - LINUX

Wow … that seems like it must have been a lot of work! I hope it’s been enjoyable too! I wish I had kept such detailed statistics of my game count / number played over the past few years so I could see how my backlog looks now compared to prior years. I’m tracking it now though!

LastM

Not all games were enjoyable, but I liked the whole experience because of a sense of pride and accomplishment and all that.
I actually only started keeping stats this year. I wish I had done this last year as well, but I wasn’t fully using BLAEO at the time. At least, next year I’ll have even better graphs xD

EvilBlackSheep

Happy New year to you too (sorry i almost missed this post ;__;)

Congrats on the huge progress with your backlog, it’s extremely impressive!! You can indeed be proud. Especially because I remember how you were also making progress on your most awful SG wins during this time!

Best of luck and happy gaming for 2018 too, at that pace you’re gonna be done with your whole backlog soon :3

Also, statistics FTW :3